Word: booed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hall was in an ugly mood. The 450 union men had come to hear a debate between two rival candidates for the school board, but their favorite, a union president, had not appeared. As his opponent, a plump, middle-aged matron, stepped to the microphone, the audience began to boo and stamp. They did not know Mrs. Norma Wulff...
...panic had various causes: the new British tax (TIME, Aug. 18), a big "Boo!" from Congressman J. Parnell Thomas-Red-hunting committee-and a 15% drop in box office. One reason so few pictures were being made was because Hollywood was not sure of the kind of pictures to make, except that they had to be cheaper. And with the box-office drop-which cut down the long wartime runs of pictures-there had to be more of them, probably...
...phychological break of the game came at that time, when Hauptfuhrer went up for a rebound with three Tufts men, inadvertently knocking out captain Bob Cooney in the struggle for the ball. The ensuing "boo" inspired the wrong team, as the Crimson surged ahead, sparked by Prior and Hauptfuhrer...
Richard C. Harlow ran a poor fourth closely followed by William J. Bingham '16, head of the H.A.A., who appeared to have been the victim of ballot boo stuffing activities in Winthrop House...
...first "boo" came from J. M. Mehl, administrator of the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Exchange Authority. The Board of Trade's margin requirements, raised only the week before, were still too low, said Mehl. He asked that they be doubled in order to "lessen the danger of a boom-&-bust situation...